March 15 - 17, 2019

DDD and Microservices: Like Peanut Butter and Jelly

Saturday - Mar 16 3:15 PM
- WAKEFIELD

Matt Stine

Global CTO - Software Architecture at Pivotal

As an architectural style, microservices are here to stay. They have crossed the proverbial chasm, and now it’s time to get to work. Microservices provide us with the ability to create truly evolutionary architectures composed of cohesive and autonomous components using well known and characterized distributed systems patterns.
As we create and compose components across the hard boundary of the network, we become deeply interested in establishing the correct boundaries and has resulted in renewed interest in system design and decomposition. Fortunately, the tried and true practices of Domain-Driven Design are available to us.

In this presentation, we will cover a distillation of strategic (bounded contexts, subdomains, context mapping) and tactical (aggregates, domain events) DDD techniques and demonstrate how they enable us to create effective event-driven microservices.

Matt is obsessed with the idea that enterprise IT “doesn’t have to suck,” and spends much of his time thinking about lean/agile software development methodologies, DevOps, architectural principles/patterns/practices, and programming paradigms, in an attempt to find the perfect storm of techniques that will allow corporate IT departments to not only function like startup companies but also create software that delights users while maintaining a high degree of conceptual integrity. He is currently the Global CTO of Architecture at Pivotal, and spends much of his time advising IT leadership on the effective adoption of cloud-native architectures.